Written by

Travis Pillow
Florida Capital Bureau

Updated at 12:50

LAKE MARY -- Florida's Democrats chose Allison Tant of Tallahassee to lead the party going into the 2014 election.

Tant is a former lobbyist and longtime children's advocate. Her supporters said she would help import to the state party the organizing and fundraising machines that helped Barack Obama win Florida twice. ...

"We are going to have to work to outraise, out organize, and outwork the GOP," she said. "We've done it before ... I was there. I did it with them."